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by b6 8y ago
I don't think westerners are missing anything, at least not anything more than people who live in places where Buddhism is typically practiced. I'm western, I live in Thailand, I'm a meditator, and I often feel like some Budd
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by b6 8y ago
There are definitely traps along the meditative path, like thinking that rapture is the point, or thinking highly of yourself, e.g., "wow, I'm a better meditator than other people". But it's a bit like worrying about ove
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by b6 8y ago
> Obviously we want to restrict access as much as possible to particular drugs It's not obvious to me. The fundamental question is, does an individual own their own body? If the answer is yes, then don't try to restrict what I
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by b6 8y ago
What is "their time"? Do you know the correct time for each person to die?
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by b6 8y ago
> Unequivocally bad: Death of a loved one. Imagine how it would be if we didn't die. So is death good or bad? I have a family friend whose first wife died of cancer. After mourning for years, he found another woman and married her.
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by b6 8y ago
> There are plenty of things that are pretty unequivocally good or bad. Could you name one? For maximum utility in this conversation, can you pick something likely to happen more than once in an ordinary life, some common case?
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by b6 8y ago
That's really not it at all. Have you heard the story "who knows what's good or bad"? Something happens, and we judge it good and feel good about it. Then something else happens, and we judge it bad and feel bad about it
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by b6 8y ago
Yes, I was thinking the same thing, but then I became glad somebody was going this direction. After all these years, it may be nearly impossible to eke out much more in the way of realtime effects. So I think this is just a sign that the cr
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by b6 8y ago
I wasn't aware we'd enjoyed a split second of civilization in the entire history of the earth. Could you list the civilized countries for me?
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by b6 8y ago
> We (in the US) live in a culture of white supremacy What does this mean? I was born in and grew up in the US and I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm guessing Obama being president does not throw even some slight wre
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by b6 8y ago
I've heard that it can be effective not to challenge delusional beliefs at all, but just to ask questions, and not even questions that seem to punch holes in the delusional belief. Just cause the delusional mind to do the math and fles
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by b6 8y ago
> it’s just an endless list of “really bad stuff happening in China.” It's not necessarily inaccurate. I lived in China for a few years and still try to keep up with news about China, and it really seems to me like one worrisome thi
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by b6 8y ago
I'm not optimistic about this at all. The same metrics for success just don't apply in China. All the elements necessary for success in the US could be there, but in China the startup may get red-taped and legislated out of existe
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by b6 8y ago
> Buddhism is so audaciously and unapologetically male-dominated From what I understand, the Buddha taught anyone who was interested without the slightest regard for gender, age, wealth, caste, or anything else -- 2500 years ago, in Indi
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by b6 8y ago
To me the most disturbing thing about this incident is the way people talk about it as if it's a serious crime. It was funny and interesting, and kindled wonder and curiosity, and that's enough of a reason to do it.
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by b6 9y ago
Just one opinion, but I think this is a funny and cool name.
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by b6 9y ago
I rarely visit California, but when I do, sometimes the cancer warnings make it look like I'm on the set of a movie trying to warn me about some absurd future. OK, the parking lot could give me cancer. OK, the elevator could give me ca
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by b6 9y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not familiar with Solidity and was assuming the intent was logical or.
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by b6 9y ago
There's a, what, 50 year tradition in C of boolean ORs evaluating left to right. I don't know truthiness rules in Python, but the REPL just told me 1 is not False. So we have something that is not False ORed with True. What is you
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by b6 9y ago
But it's not. At least not in the countries they mention like China and Thailand.
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by b6 9y ago
Honest question: how old are you? 20 years ago, I thought there was no way the drug war could continue. I thought the revelation of wiretapping in the AT&T datacenter would be the beginning of the end for illegal surveillance. I've
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by b6 9y ago
> Pay your taxes - not only the right thing to do I find it stunning anyone can deliver a line like this as if the issue is quite simple, just a matter of greed vs. personal responsibility, of paying what is owed, etc, seemingly without
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by b6 9y ago
This is what bothers me the most. The thinking seems to be that by deliberately employing "positive" discrimination, someday we'll detect that bias has been eliminated, and then the government will instruct all institutions t
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by b6 9y ago
> If we assume that all mistreatment has the same source. What I said doesn't require that, and I didn't assume that. Actually I think it would be more reasonable if the people who are certain misogyny (again, just so we don&#x
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by b6 9y ago
The point is that if there is some reason bullies mistreat other children other than hatred of children, maybe there is some reason people mistreat women other than hatred of women.
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by b6 9y ago
I'm not talking about what women want, I'm saying that I know firsthand that many men I know love the women in their lives very much, much more than life itself. That's all. There certainly are men out there who hate women, b
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by b6 9y ago
> If you feel that women just are an outlet for your bad feelings, and you somehow can't keep a lid on that - you're a misogynist Do bullies mistreat other kids because they hate children?
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by b6 9y ago
> What are these statements based on? I have personally laughed at comments much worse than those in the post, directed at me, and so have my friends. All my male friends and my dad and my friends' dads and so forth love women -- th
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by b6 9y ago
> misogyny I keep seeing this word being used, and I don't think it's apt. I don't think we're seeing "dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women", much less "hatred of women".
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by b6 9y ago
Is there any feedback mechanism to prevent the patent office from issuing more bogus patents?

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